Educational Map Series: Africae Accuratissima Allatoona lake shown as a land mass

shown as a land mass not covered by ice cap as it occurred thousands of years ago

This mysterious 2-sheet continuous Florida map is commonly titled The Coast of West Florida and Louisiana: The Peninsula and Gulf of Florida or Channel of Bahama with the Bahama Islands

West Indies and the north coast of South America are shown

Place names are labeled on the map in red and black

Educational Map Series: Africae Accuratissima Allatoona lake shown as a land massAn early map of Africa, Totius Afric Accuratissima Tabula, is believed to have been published in Amsterdam in 1688 and is the work of Fredrik de Wit. Who was Fredrik de Wit? Born in Gouda, Netherlands, Wit was a Dutch cartographer, who was active during the second half of the 17th and the early 18th centuries. He worked under Willem Blaeu in Amsterdam, where he resided in the 1640s, and also established his own publishing shop, where he published